Watch this:
Motorcyclists attacking a sugar truck because they’re starving. That’s some Mad Max shit right there! (Hat tip to Moonbattery.)
I remember when Hugo Chavez was elected. It was a train wreck in slow motion and I couldn’t look away. I knew how it would end. So did anyone who’s learned anything from history. What annoyed me most was that the American press got its panties wet about how super-awesome everything was going to be. This is proof that not a damn one of them has a clue. Communism/Socialism sounds nice on paper but it’s got a track record of famine, poverty, and oppression; with a heapin’ helping of death en masse. I remember thinking “those poor bastards in Venezuela are going to learn the lesson good and hard“. I wished innocents didn’t have to go through yet another meatgrinder but it is what it is.
So now I’m putting on my shocked face and reporting that Venezuela continues to suck a little worse every day; the same fate as all countries that go Full Retard Socialist. The press doesn’t much notice Venezuela now. They too busy wearing Che Guevara shirts to Whole Foods and being wrong about everything.
Therefore I propose the Quit Being A Dumbass Act of 2017:
Whereas:
- Any system that screws a relatively rich country until there are videos of a desperate raid on a sugar truck is a really really really bad system.
- When #1 involves a horde on motorcycles attacking a moving semi with Molotov cocktails that’s pretty much the exact plot of Mad Max.
- Nobody wants to live through Mad Max.
- Dipshits in the media who were America’s public fluffers for Chavez somehow persist. They jumped all over Chavez’ glorious beginning but never the predictable end game. (Heard an article about Venezuela on NPR lately?) The word for this is bias and it’s no accident.
Therefore be it resolved that:
- Socialism/Communism always winds up with privation and misery. Don’t do it.
- Anyone who writes positively about the rise of a brutal overlord will get a free all-expenses one way ticket to the hellhole of their choice but only ten years later. That way they get to see the mess their ideals wrought. They will be airdropped with three dollars in their pocket, a Che Guavara shirt, and their precious socialist theories. I wish them luck as they experience the Utopia they desired.
- There is a place reserved in special hell for former Massachusetts Democratic Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II. Kennedy got involved giving away “free” oil Chavez had “nationalized”. That’s not just dirty, it’s special hell dirty.
Ugh, the stupid… it burns.
A.C.
P.S. I can’t independently verify this video. I wasn’t there. I’m thankfully sitting fat and happy on a freezer full of bacon in a different hemisphere. Hopefully the driver wasn’t injured. If nobody got hurt there’s still hope. Also, anyone reading this who’s physically in Venezuela please drop me a private note ’cause I wanna’ talk. I’d sure appreciate it. I promise I’m not trying to sell aluminum siding or anything.
I often like to say that socialism is the only “social science” experiment to have been tested in a properly controlled, properly varied double blind trial. After cutting countries in half throughout the entire second half of the 20th century, after trying every variation of socialism on every cultural group at every level of development on Earth, I’d think it would be safe to say that an empirical picture has accumulated.
If socialism is “good in theory” then if you want to be *scientific*, you have to start asking yourself what the hell is wrong with your theory.
(Personally it isn’t exactly a deep puzzle. What all these mealy-mouthed social scientists going on about systems of ‘political economy’ (as if they’re being subtle about confusing their terms) are trying to hide is that the free market (or “capitalism”, if you must) is what people do when they’re free, and *every single variation* from that state takes the form of men with badges and guns preventing people from freely associating and doing business. Maybe there are edge cases where you have to do such things, but when you make it the central organizing principle of your society, you can’t *not* have a police state.)